Three “stewardesses” other than Christina Ricci are very appealing chteacarrs. Develop them. I don't agree about Ricci's character her non-white-bread personality is a nice contrast to the rest of the women. But whomever developed her had no sense of what a rebel/beatnik was like. Most of those folks didn't put on and take off their convictions like a new stew hat they lived them. Ricci's beatnik attitude seemed like just a convenient label, not something she truly believed in. But otherwise you are quite correct the show got off on the wrong foot (not) developing these chteacarrs and never really recovered. Too much jumping around in the timelines-keep the plotlines linear. _Seriously_. This show became a lot more trouble to follow than it was worth as a result. MAD MEN uses flashbacks, but usually confines them to one character in an episode focused on that character or two interrelated chteacarrs looking at where their relationship started/went wrong. PAM AM has practically every character flashing back every five minutes, which wrecks forward story momentum and forces you to spend too much time sorting out who did what when.